Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-11-03
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

fused, on the 26th, to listen to further ora
argument in the Kansas prohibition case
EMPEROR WILLIAM has returned to Der
lin from hunt at Wernigerode. He sho
four deer and eleven boars, and beat al
expert playing billiards during the trip.
COLONEL SwITzLER, chief of the Bureau
of Statistics, has issued a three hundred
page report on wool and wooden manu-
features.
THE Interstate Commerce Commission
held a conference with prominent railroad
officials on the 26th relative to the annua
reports required by the law.
The coroner's inquest over the dead
dynamiter at London developed the fact
that deceased was intimate with certain
Americans from Philadelphia.
THE annual report of the Surgeon Gen
sral Of the army shows slight increase
of the death rate in tho service over tha
Of last year.
AMERICAN swindlers have 'worked'
London banks recently for sums Of money
aggregating 100000.
IRVING HALL, New York, initiated tn,
Republicans by indorsing Mr.. MARITIME fol
judge of the Court of Sessions, and nomi
mating Mr.. Nicol for district attorney.
THE sale Of LA Tosca," Sardou's new
play, to Fanny Davenport has greatly
displeased Bernhardt, who wished to buy
it herself, or have it sold to Grau.
JOHN B. CORNELL, of the firm Of j. B.
j. N. Cornell, iron founders, of New York
died at his home at Lakewood, N. j., or
the 26th. He was sixty-six years of age
THERE are further indications of serious
trouble among the refiners interested il
the great sugar trust.
THE residence of Adelina Patti, in
Wales, is reported to have been entered
by burglars and quantity of valuable
jewelry stolen.
THE Montreal (Can.) Board of Trade al
the next session of Parliament will ash
for legislation to suppress bucket-shops.
COLONEL GEORGE BRADY arrived at Den
yer, Col, on the Goth, with two companies
Of the Eighteenth Infantry. Genera
Sheridan is expected every day, and viii
be called Post Sheridan.
RETAIL merchants met in National con.
vention at Philadelphia on the 26th.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND, Secretary La
mont and Governor Hill have sent cash
contributions to the New York Democratic
campaign fund.
A NEST of rookeries in Newark, N. j.,
one OF which was occupied by the Schuy
Ter Electric Light Company, and another
by White & Garrison's stables, were
burned ON the 26th. Ten horses and seven
cows persisted in the flames; loss, about
$4,000.
Lo Hone, part owner of a laundry in
New York, was found dead with his
throat cut in the laundry on the Goth
The case is supposed to have been one OF
suicide, but is being investigated.
FIRE at Portage, Wis, on the 26th, to-
tally destroyed the Portage steam fourth g
mill. The fire is supposed to have been
incendiary, as the mill had not been run
ming for a week. Loss, $4,000; no insur-
ance.
FRENCH gun factories are being run to
magazine rifle with which to equip the
army. The weapon is represented as the
greatest death dealer ever known in the
list of "peace-makers."
THE G. A. r. gathering at Cincinnati on
the the 9th was largely attended.
NATIVE chiefs of Zululand are organic
ing rebellion against British authority
over their country.
THE President has appointed VIM. w
Dougherty, of Missouri, agent for the In
dians of the Warm Spring Agency in Ore
gon.
DURING the last fiscal year the Govern
ment expended ST ,095, 379 for the education
of Indian children.
If Diaz is reelected President of Mexico
London bankers stand ready to aid the
government financially.
THE directors of the Cotton Oil Trust
met in New York on the 9th, elected j.
81. Flagler president and three additional
trustees.
AN Irish landlord is demanding a re-
traction from Mr.. Gladstone of severe
criticisms made by the latter in public ut
terances.
THE complications of the French ma
tional administration grow more serious
daily through increasing opposition in the
Chamber of Deputies.
DEVELOPMENTS at the coroner's inquest
in the Benhayon case at San Francisco
lead to the conclusion that Benhayon was
poisoned.
THE whole Crow Indian tribe have left
their farms and are camped in large bands
along the Big and Little Horn rivers.
THE New Hampshire House has passed
the bill to create a State board of arbitra-
ton.
TORY papers in England publish as fact
that Lord Randolph Churchill is to succeed
Lord Lansdowne as Governor General OF
Canada in May next.
grafton sales have been held for trial on
November Z. This is the Inauguration OF
prosecutions in connection with what is
known as the War Office scandal.
THE steamship Cephalonia sailed for
Liverpool on the 9th with John L. Sulli-
van and party on board. A large crowd
of sports saw him off.
ALTAMoNT, a bay stallion, died at the
Jewett stock farm at East Aurora, N. Y,
on the 9th, of collie. He was sired by
Altamont, 80, dam by Mambrino Pilot.
He was never tried for speed, but it was
intended to give him trial this sea-
son. He was valued at $4,000.
JOHN GLASS, aged sixty years, resi-
dent of Loretto, Pa, while driving a pair
of horses over the railroad crossing at
Lilly's station, on the 9th, was struck by
the day express and fatally injured. Both
horses were instantly killed.
R. Z. Fox has cabled London Sporting Life
offering to match Kilrain against Sullivan,
London prize-ring rules, for any sum from
5000 to $4,000 side, within three months
from January 8, 1888. He will send a for
felt of $500.
SIR WnFRED BLUNT, who was arrested
at Woodford, Ireland, for speaking at a
proclaimed meeting, was found guilty OF
violating the Irish Crimes act, and SEN
fenced to two months Imprisonment. No
tice of appeal was given by defendants
counsel.
IT is stated that Prince Ferdinand of
Bulgaria has advanced 5000, 900 from his
private fortune to the Bulgarian Treas
ury to hasten the completion of railways.
SYSTEMATIC robbing of freight cars on
the Southern Pacific railroad has been go
ing on for six months between Tuscon,
rested ]. Griffith, freight conductor, and
Charles Eddy and j. Burchmel freight